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If you love photography or general creativeness and want new interesting ways to display your work then this really is the theme for you. If you are not that familiar with WordPress the video tutorials will guide you through how to create everything you need. The theme also has helpful hints throughout to let you know what everything does…Want something unique? No problem, we have included many different modules that are unique to Themeforest, like the interactive jQuery wall, and the floating slideshow navigation with automatic scroll.
We hope you enjoy this theme 
Slideshows
There 6 kickass fullscreen sliders to suit all kinds of images.
- Slideshow With Right Navigation (Landscape Thumbs) – This is the slider you will see on the demo homepage. You can choose any page to be your homepage with Village. This slideshow comes with thumbs that have landscape orientation and navigation controls.
- Slideshow With Right Navigation (Portrait Thumbs) – This slideshow comes with thumbs that have portrait orientation and navigation controls.
- Slideshow With Floating Navigation (Landscape Thumbs) – This is a unique slider that has a centralised floating navigation section. It comes complete with navigation controls.
- Slideshow With Floating Navigation (Portrait Thumbs) – This is a unique slider that has a centralised floating navigation section. It comes complete with navigation controls. This slider has portrait thumbs.
- Slideshow With No Cropping – This slider will not crop any part of your photo. Awesome for portrait orientated images!
- Slideshow With No Thumbs – This is a slideshow with no navigation controls or thumbnails.
Galleries
Village has an awesome gallery manager that allows you to upload 100’s of photos in just a few clicks. Gallery thumbnails can be portrait or landscape. You can view a demo of it here: http://themes.themeprovince.com/village/gallery-manager-demonstration/
Village comes with 13 gallery templates in total…
- prettyPhoto Galleries – Showcase your work with the awesome prettyPhoto script. You can choose between 1-4 columns and you can also define whether your thumbnails appear in landscape or portrait orientation. You can link to external sites from gallery thumbnails and also open videos in prettyPhoto.
- Fancybox Galleries – Showcase your work with the Fancybox script. You can link to external sites from gallery thumbnails. You can choose between 1-4 columns and you can also define whether your thumbnails appear in landscape or portrait orientation.
- Colorbox Galleries – Showcase your work with the Colorbox script. You can choose between 1-4 columns and you can also define whether your thumbnails appear in landscape or portrait orientation. You can link to external sites from gallery thumbnails.
Great Documentation + Video Demonstrations & Support Forum
This theme comes with an extensive documentation file that even has video tutorials showing you exactly what to do. If you are still stuck then please head over to the support forums where one of our support staff will kindly take on your issue. We offer free technical support for our themes.
Note that all discussions are hidden until you login. Sign up is quick and easy. The support forum is located here: http://support.themeprovince.com/
Once you purchase a theme from Theme Province you’ll be in safe hands. We provide detailed documentation for all our themes, we go even further and include video screencasts to get you up and running. Be sure to get a lightning fast response usually within a few hours, sometimes minutes. If you need a quicker answer then you might want to check out KnowledgeBase below.
When you purchase a theme from us you’ll be able to access our KnowledgeBase where you can find answers to questions and access resources. This is a great way to quickly and easily solve your issue without even having to contact us for support.
Interactive jQuery Walls
Village allows you to display awesome jQuery walls with ease.
There are 5 types of wall item available to use…
- Normal – This is the standard wall item that shows an image.
- Lightbox – This type of wall item allows you to use the prettyPhoto lightbox plugin to display a larger image or video.
- Link – This type of wall item allows you to link to an external site by clicking on it.
- Vimeo – This type of wall item allows you to show a vimeo video. Scrolling over this type of wall item will not work.
- Youtube – This type of wall item allows you to show a youtube video.
- Video – Lets you display a HTML5 video.
Portfolios
With Village you can create Portfolios. You can choose between 1-3 columns or display it as a blog type layout. Here are the templates in more detail…
- Standard Portfolio – Display your work and choose from 1-3 columns.
- Portfolio Paged – Display your work as a blog type layout showing additional info about a certain project.
There are 6 available portfolio item types.
- Image – Display an image as a portfolio item. Lightbox enabled!
- External Link – The portfolio item links to an external url.
- Self Hosted Video – The portfolio item type shows a self hosted video.
- Youtube – The portfolio item type shows a Youtube video.
- Vimeo – The portfolio item type shows a Vimeo video.
- Audio – The portfolio item type plays an audio file.
Sidebars & Widgets
- Unlimited Sidebars – This theme allows you to add a custom sidebar to each page and post. The theme comes with a sidebar manager to easily add and remove custom sidebars in seconds.
- 8 Custom Widgets
- Twitter Widget
- Popular Posts w/ Thumbnails
- Recent Posts w/ Thumbnails
- Popular Portfolio Items w/ Thumbnails
- Recent Portfolio Items w/ Thumbnails
- Youtube Widget
- Vimeo Widget
- Flickr Widget
Backgrounds
With Village you can assign a different background or slideshow to each post/page/portfolio.
- Background Post Type – Once you have created a background you will never need to create it again as backgrounds are defined by a custom post type allowing you simply apply an existing background you created to a page/post/portfolio instantaneously.
- Select Backgrounds For Archive, Search & 404 pages. – You can choose what backgrounds to display on archive, search and 404 pages.
Internationalized + WPML Support
This theme is internationalized so the theme can translations in more than one language simultaneously. It also supports the WPML plugin.Light & Dark Skins
There are 2 skins available with this theme.
Fonts
You can choose fonts from the entire Google Fonts library. You can change the fonts for the menu, submenu, headings and main body font.
Theme Options
Village comes with a simple and clean set of Theme Options that are completely unbranded.
Other Features!
- Shortcode generator that is built into the Visual Editor!
- 100% Timthumb FREE! This is no timthumb resizing so security risks are decreased.
- Great range of shortcodes and typography included.
- Working AJAX Contact Form!
Testimonials
BigLake
Credit where credit is due, this template is excellent value for money. I am sure I will come across the odd glitch here and there but from what I have seen to press it certainly will be nothing major. The Password protection is just how it should be, a very useful feature when allowing clients to view a shoot.
The template is very well put together, professional in every way and simple to use. Anyone with a reasonable knoweldge of WP will breeze around this without having to use the excellent documentation. I stopped and hesitated about buying this because of the Password Protection, asked the question, saw the update go live and just had to buy it. 5 Stars are certainly deserved, I hope I can put some work into my site (test mode at present http://www.imag3.co.uk) that will do the template justice.
Thank you for your work and excellent support
JeannaD
I am a photojournalist using this theme to create my site and it has been a great experience. The theme is clean and simple which is great for displaying photos.
Additionally, the customer support is tremendous. I had a few issues that were corrected by the support staff or explained to me in a way that was easy to understand and fix.
Thanks again!
jeanna
yunhen3350
This theme has tempted me from a themeforest.net visitor to became a purchased member. =) It’s just soooo wonderful and exactly what I want my site to be.
I did read the documentation and all comments, I understand that it needs enormous efforts to response for all customers/users effectively. Some people might only wish to take short-cut for everything without proper fundamental knowledge, this always causes many problems not related outside of your boundary.
But I realized you did responded to almost every comment/question, and trying your best to solve their issue and even willing to modify code individually for them, you are the greatest developer I ever seen =)
Appreciate your work very much. Thank you.
Rated 5 stars for you.
Credits
Supersized Slideshow Plugin & SuperBGImage by Andreas Eberhard – http://buildinternet.com/project/supersized/
Orman Clark for the social icons – http://premiumpixels.com